19 Aug
2005
19 Aug
'05
7:06 a.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
Jan-Benedict> ...One board (in the XMI cage) was a
T2027, which is a
Jan-Benedict> XMI-to-FDDI board. Nice :)
No benefit? I get much better transfer rates through regular FDDI than
I do through *switched* 100Mbps ethernet. I have a DEC GIGAswitch, and
let me tell you that switched FDDI is *extremely* fast.
That's not even talking about fault-tolerance.
> Ha, I had forgotten that ever shipped. I
suspect that's not a
> common board at all. Of course, finding anything to plug it into
> isn't easy anymore...
9000> Aren't there some FDDI-SCSI converters? I bought one from ebay
9000> (HSD 5 or 10?)
FDDI to SCSI? Not 100% impossible but it seems unlikely. FDDI is a
network interface, similar to 100BaseT (but much more complex for no
benefit). You can run IP over it, of course. And then you could
run iSCSI, if
you don't mind the slow performance. But FDDI was obsolete long
before iSCSI came out. So an FDDI to SCSI converter would have to be a
proprietary hack.
Obselete? It's still very much used in places where fault tolerance is
important.
Peace... Sridhar